She also writes young adult with her son Alex under the name J. Under the names Rachel Hawthorne and Jade Parker, she writes popular contemporary, historical, and paranormal romance for teens readers. Since then, she's authored over sixty novels, with historical and contemporary romance for adults and historical romance for teen readers. She said up until then she '.had a preconception of what romance was.' In 1993, she sold her first novel, Sweet Lullaby. She wrote training manuals and computer code for the IRS before she turned to fiction writing when she picked up LaVyrle Spencer’s Morning Glory which hooked her not only on Spencer's work, but convinced her that she wanted to write romance. In 1998, Laura Bush, then First Lady of Texas, invited Heath to serve on a romance panel at the Texas Book Festival. She earned a BA in psychology from the University of Texas and lived in Austin, Texas for sixteen years before moving to Plano, Texas in 1987. Shortly after Heath's birth, her family moved to Texas where she was raised in Angleton, Texas. Her parents met while her a father was stationed at Bovingdon while serving in the air force. Heath was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England from an American father and a British mother. As of June 2015, fifteen of her titles made the USA Today bestseller list. She is known for her 'beautiful, deeply emotional romances' and in 1997, she received the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Short Historical Romance for her novel Always to Remember. Lorraine Heath is an American author of contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance and young adult novels under multiple pen names, including Rachel Hawthorne, J.A. RITA award – Best Short Historical Romance Contemporary romance, historical romance, paranormal romance, young adult

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